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Unusual names that you love??

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RandDandC · 27/12/2019 20:59

Where I live there is a girl called Mayley, (Pronounced like Hayley but with an M) which I had never heard before but I have fallen in love with. What unusual names do you love?

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HalfManHalfLabrador · 01/01/2020 23:59

Melody
Tegan
Plum

SaharaSunset · 01/01/2020 23:53

Boys:
Tate
Tino
Harlem
Huxley
Apollo
Kael
Nixon

Girls:
Hero
Dixie
Maple
Hadley

username1724 · 31/12/2019 02:49

Amadeus
Lilla
Sibella
Arcadius
Ocean
Cassius

Magpiesshinynest · 30/12/2019 19:26

Tazanna
Meadow
Athena
Anella

CodYe · 30/12/2019 16:34

Antimony for a girl
Moss for a boy

HalfBloodPrincess · 30/12/2019 16:28

Hecate
Scout

ladycarlotta · 30/12/2019 16:24

Aphra
Hero
Clary
Soradamor (! from my days studying 15th century Venice)
Aelfgifu

My daughter's name just troubles the top 100, so not crazy unusual but not crazy common either. It's easy to pronounce and is used in many European countries. I love those names I listed, but I think they might be... unwieldy? in everyday life.

Happyandglorious · 30/12/2019 15:41

Cadiz and Cosima

Wineinbathtub · 30/12/2019 13:15

Devon
Capability

Bunnybigears · 30/12/2019 13:13

Ryder
Byron
Torren
River

Veda
Melody
Harmony

1plus2equalstrouble · 30/12/2019 13:07

@NationMcKinley makes more sense...

BobblyRash · 30/12/2019 09:17

Tulip
Thierry

BlueMoon1103 · 30/12/2019 09:12

Tigerlilly. Love it but would never use it for any girl I had!

NationMcKinley · 30/12/2019 08:48

@1plus2equalstrouble I wonder if Anthony is a typo for Antimony?

Loveislandaddict · 29/12/2019 16:50

Rowena

Roderigo
Deveraux
Bjorn

I second the poster above who says that they love the names the dcs have, but at the same time wished they’d been bolder.

Weekday28 · 29/12/2019 16:46

Nancy - wish I'd have thought of it for our girls, although husband probably would have vetoed

Beth1999 · 29/12/2019 16:40

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ikeakia · 29/12/2019 16:18

Timberly
Roah

Tiberius.
Thorin
Sirius

autumnkate · 29/12/2019 15:57

Lark
Story

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 29/12/2019 15:26

lampan and therein lies the reason I could never use it. I think it's really nice though objectively.

PlantPotting · 29/12/2019 12:20

Hebe

CakeRattleandRoll · 29/12/2019 11:46

Taliesin
Jowan
Jago

Arianwen
Morwenna
Corisande

beanaseireann · 29/12/2019 11:34

Persephione
Lorcan is a pretty bog standard boy's name in Ireland. Not a bit fancy or unusual.
There was a famous 12 th century Archbishop of Dublin called Lorcan o' Toole.

1plus2equalstrouble · 29/12/2019 01:13

Anthony
Unusual???

Lampan · 29/12/2019 00:48

Eartha unfortunately just reminds me of the Cockney rhyming slang...